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Alt om Suzy Lamplugh-sagen: dokumentarer, bøger og podcasts

Den britiske ejendomsmægler Susannah Jane Lamplugh forsvandt den 28. juli 1986 fra Fulham i London, efter hun skulle møde en klient kaldet 'Mr. Kipper'. 25-årige Suzy blev erklæret juridisk død i 1993, og politiet har siden da peget på den dømte voldtægtsmand og morder John Cannan som hovedmistænkt.

True Crime Presents (DRTV 2025)

True Crime Presents is a 2025 UK documentary anthology series, available on DRTV, examining some of Britain's most significant criminal cases through archive footage and expert testimony.

Britain's Biggest (Season 2025)

Storbritanniens Største is a DRTV documentary series streaming in 2025 covering landmark British criminal cases, available on Denmark's public broadcaster DR.

A Spy Among Friends

Ben Macintyre recounts how senior British intelligence officer Kim Philby, a founding member of MI6, spent decades secretly passing classified information to the Soviet Union while maintaining the complete trust of his colleagues and closest friends. The book illuminates the Cambridge spy ring, Cold War intelligence betrayal and the devastating personal consequences of the ultimate, sustained treachery.

The Feather Thief

Kirk Wallace Johnson recounts the bizarre June 2009 overnight heist in which twenty-year-old American flute prodigy Edwin Rist broke into the Natural History Museum at Tring and stole 299 irreplaceable Victorian bird specimens. The book blends natural history, obsessive fly-tying subculture and genuine crime to produce a wholly unexpected and thoroughly absorbing true-crime narrative.

The Wicked Boy

Kate Summerscale recounts the disturbing 1895 case of thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes, who stabbed his mother to death in London's East End and kept the body hidden for days. The book examines Victorian anxieties about childhood violence, the moral panic over penny-dreadful fiction and the boy's surprising, redemptive later life following his release from Broadmoor.

Classic Crimes

William Roughead, the pre-eminent Scottish crime essayist, gathers accounts of celebrated British murder trials spanning several centuries in this influential 1951 collection. His learned, gently ironic style, blending courtroom drama, social history and a connoisseur's relish for the macabre, defined the true-crime essay tradition and influenced generations of crime writers.

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Kate Summerscale revisits the 1860 murder of three-year-old Saville Kent at an English country house and the pioneering investigation by Detective Inspector Jonathan Whicher. The case gripped Victorian Britain and shaped the emerging figure of the modern detective in fact and fiction.

Robert Black — Scottish serial killer who murdered four girls

Robert Black was a Scottish serial killer and paedophile who abducted and murdered four young girls across the UK between 1981 and 1986 while working as a delivery driver.

UK True Crime Podcast Profiles Britain's Notorious Identity Thief

Host Adam Lloyd explores the case of Elliot Castro — described as one of Britain's most notorious identity thieves — in episode 508 of UK True Crime Podcast, released on May 11, 2026. The episode runs 28 minutes.

They Walk Among Us Covers Brutal Teen Murder and Missing Wife

Established British true crime podcast They Walk Among Us has released an episode covering a shocking family tragedy in the UK, where a teenage girl was brutally killed and her mother disappeared without a trace. The episode reconstructs the hours leading up to the attack.

British Podcast Explores a Mother's Confession and a Family Tragedy

British true crime podcast They Walk Among Us has released an episode on a deeply disturbing family case, in which a teenage girl is found brutally murdered, the mother vanishes without a trace, and the father returns home to signs of a violent struggle and bloody evidence throughout the house.